This is an interesting post but I'm too sleepy to answer your questions very well.
I think femslash fandom exists in a nebulous form: there are communities like this for example, but not the same coherent culture you get with a lot of fandoms around particular sources.
I would say there is a definitely a difference in the type of fic produced overall, all the same types of fic as in het/boyslash etc exist but in different ratios. More unrequited bittersweet endings and understated realism, I'd say, and less long plotty fics. From what I can see from DeviantArt with fanart there's a not insignificant proportion of male fans.
Xena is definitely one you can't really miss, also Devil Wears Prada.
The two fandoms I'm really in are Avatar the Last Airbender and Dragon Age Origins and they both seem pretty femslash friendly. Alas I don't like the main popular pairing for Avatar (Azula/Ty Lee) so don't actually read much femslash in the fandom but Dragon Age has a couple of canon f/f ships and my non-canon f/f has been quite popular, both with people who like f/f and those who just like those two characters.
It's been funny with my one Amy/River story: that's the only Dr Who story I've written, and I'm not really in the fandom (not even on the Amy/River community, since most people's approach to the pairing rubs me the wrong way) so the comments to it are my main connection to the fandom. When I encounter posts and links to mainstream Dr Who fandom I am reminded how HUGE and scary and weird (and aggressively obsessed with the het ships) it is compared to the nice friendly small backwater my fic sits in :)
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Date: 2010-09-25 03:06 am (UTC)I think femslash fandom exists in a nebulous form: there are communities like this for example, but not the same coherent culture you get with a lot of fandoms around particular sources.
I would say there is a definitely a difference in the type of fic produced overall, all the same types of fic as in het/boyslash etc exist but in different ratios. More unrequited bittersweet endings and understated realism, I'd say, and less long plotty fics. From what I can see from DeviantArt with fanart there's a not insignificant proportion of male fans.
Xena is definitely one you can't really miss, also Devil Wears Prada.
The two fandoms I'm really in are Avatar the Last Airbender and Dragon Age Origins and they both seem pretty femslash friendly. Alas I don't like the main popular pairing for Avatar (Azula/Ty Lee) so don't actually read much femslash in the fandom but Dragon Age has a couple of canon f/f ships and my non-canon f/f has been quite popular, both with people who like f/f and those who just like those two characters.
It's been funny with my one Amy/River story: that's the only Dr Who story I've written, and I'm not really in the fandom (not even on the Amy/River community, since most people's approach to the pairing rubs me the wrong way) so the comments to it are my main connection to the fandom. When I encounter posts and links to mainstream Dr Who fandom I am reminded how HUGE and scary and weird (and aggressively obsessed with the het ships) it is compared to the nice friendly small backwater my fic sits in :)